Re: onmouseover effect

Thank you David

The link that you gave showed me the way

The result can be seen at http://sst-svg.co.uk/toyellow8.svg

Most grateful
Pete (Northolt UK)


--- In [email protected], "David Dailey" <ddailey@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Peter,
> 
>  
> 
> A couple of things:
> 
> 1.       You might take a look at
> http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/IG/resources/svgprimer.html . It was written
> at a time that the Adobe plugin for IE  (often called ASV) was more relevant
> (that is, before native SVG support in IE) and the examples were, except as
> noted, pretty much cross browser compliant for all five browsers.
> 
> 2.       ASV really is approaching obsolescence. While I would agree that
> lots of individuals do not have access to native support for SVG in IE, the
> SVG spec has been largely diverging from it for almost ten years now. 
> 
> Nevertheless, the code examples in the above reference should work most
> everywhere, includeing ASV.
> 
>  
> 
> As Robert notes, Jonathan Watt's authoring notes should provide most of what
> you need for getting things to work across browsers.
> 
>  
> 
> David
> 
>  
> 
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
> On Behalf Of PETER
> Sent: Friday, April 12, 2013 4:40 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [svg-developers] Re: onmouseover effect
> 
>  
> 
>   
> 
> 
> 
> Robert
> Thank you for your prompt reply
> 
> Looked at the page suggested - found relevant part.
> 
> Made changes suggested
> In http://sst-svg.co.uk/toyellow3.svg
> 
> Not only does it not work in Firefox, it doesn't work in IE with Adobe
> SVGview.exe
> 
> I must be exceptionally dim today - what did I do wrong
> 
> Pete (Northolt UK)
> 
> --- In [email protected]
> <mailto:svg-developers%40yahoogroups.com> , "Robert Longson" <longsonr@>
> wrote:
> >
> > https://jwatt.org/svg/authoring/ is a good read for such things. In it it
> says...
> > 
> > in ASV it is possible to write code like this:
> > 
> > evt.getTarget().getOwnerDocument().getDocumentElement();
> > 
> > when the DOM and SVG specifications actually define properties, not
> methods, so the correct way to write this code is:
> > 
> > evt.target.ownerDocument.documentElement;
> > 
> > 
> > You'll find if you search in your example for getTarget() and replace it
> by target as suggested there, your mouseover works.
> > 
> > Robert
> >
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>




------------------------------------

-----
To unsubscribe send a message to: [email protected]
-or-
visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my membership"
----Yahoo! Groups Links

<*> To visit your group on the web, go to:
    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/

<*> Your email settings:
    Individual Email | Traditional

<*> To change settings online go to:
    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/join
    (Yahoo! ID required)

<*> To change settings via email:
    [email protected] 
    [email protected]

<*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
    [email protected]

<*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to:
    http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/